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Paul Brinkman Paul D. Brinkman, Ph.D. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ● 11 W. Jones Street ● Raleigh, NC 27601-1029 (919) 707-9282 ● [email protected] Appointments North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC Head, History of Science Research Lab & Curator of Special Collections 2015 - present Assistant Director, Paleontology & Geology Research Lab 2012 – 2015 Research Curator II 2006 – 2012 North Carolina State University, History Department, Raleigh, NC Adjunct Associate Professor 2015 – present Special Faculty 2014 Courses taught: HI 499/599: Dinomania! A cultural & scientific history of dinosaurs HI 482: Darwinism in science & society HI 322: The rise of modern science HON 296: The last dinosaur course HI 323: Science, American style Courses under A history of plant sciences in the Carolinas development: Uncovering Earth’s deep history Charles Darwin, voyaging: history & field biology in the Galapagos Walking with Wallace: history of science, biogeography & ecology Education Ph.D., history of science, with a minor supporting program in museum studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, December 2005 B.A., history and geography, with minors in geology and Latin American studies, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, May 1991 Grants 2019. Smithsonian Institution, Short-Term Visiting Fellowship. Project title: “Now is the time to collect: salvage zoology and museums at the turn of the twentieth century.” $2,000. 2013. N. C. Museum of Natural Sciences, Research & Collections Grant. Project title: “Wonderful Beasts: A History of the Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expeditions to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-1927.” $1,800. 2011-2012. American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant. Project title: “A History of the Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expeditions to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-1927.” $6,000. Publications Books [In preparation.] Wonderful Beasts: A History of the Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-1927. [Submitted.] The Mecca for All Naturalists: Daniel Giraud Elliot & the Field Columbian Museum Zoological Expedition to Africa in 1896. The University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010. The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums & Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.* Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. *Nominated for the Susan E. Abrams Prize in History of Science 2004. A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals of Barnum Brown & J. P. Sams, University of Kansas Expedition of 1895. (Co-edited with M. Kohl and L. Martin). Glendo, Wyoming: High Plains Press. Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters [In preparation.] “Now is the time to collect: salvage zoology and museums at the turn of the twentieth century.” Endeavour. 2018. “John Conrad Hansen (1869-1952) and his scientific illustrations.” Archives of Natural History 45(2): 233-244. 2018. “The strongest kind of competition: expanding zoology at Chicago’s Field Columbian Museum, 1894-1895.” Colligo 1(1): 53-68. https://perma.cc/B9BY-F9RC 2018. “Valuable so far as it goes: establishing zoology at Chicago’s Field Columbian Museum, 1893-1894.” Journal of the History of Collections. 2018. “Following the lure: field experience and professional opportunities in turn-of-the- twentieth-century American vertebrate paleontology.” In Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty- First Century. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 775-805. 2017. “On an album of photographs recording fossils in the ‘Old collections’ of the Museo de La Plata and Ameghino’s private collection at the beginning of the XXth century.” (Co-authored with S. F. Vizcaíno, G. De Iuliis, R. F. Kay and D. L. Brinkman.) Asociación Paleontológica Argentina Publicación Electrónica 17(1): 14-23. 2016. “On the objectives and results of the Handel T. Martin paleontological expedition (1903-04) to the Santa Cruz Formation in southern Patagonia.” (Co-authored with S. F. Vizcaíno and R. F. Kay.) Revista del Museo de La Plata 1: 316-333. 2016. “Edward Drinker Cope’s final feud.” Archives of Natural History 43(2): 305-320. 2016. “Paleontology.” In A Companion to the History of American Science. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 227-240. 2015. “Remarking on a blackened eye: Persifor Frazer’s blow-by-blow account of a fistfight with his dear friend Edward Drinker Cope.” Endeavour 39(3-4): 188-192. 2015. “The ‘Chicago idea:’ patronage, authority and scientific autonomy at the Field Columbian Museum, 1893-1897.” Museum History Journal 8(2): 168-187. 2015. “Voyage of the Beagle.” In Discoveries in Modern Science: Exploration, Invention and Technology. New York: Macmillan Reference, vol. III, pp. 1203-1207. 2014. “A. R. Crandall’s smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis) from North Carolina.” (Co-authored with B. L. Stuart and J. Rosado.) Southeastern Naturalist 13(4): 37-42. 2014. “Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pp. 11-12. 2014. “Edward Drinker Cope.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pp. 217-218. 2014. “Dinosaurs.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pp. 249-250. 2014. “Othniel Charles Marsh.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 2, pp. 24-25. 2014. “Paleontology.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 2, pp. 215-218. 2014. “Clemente Onelli’s sketch map and his first-hand, retrospective account of an early fossil-hunting expedition along the Río Santa Cruz, southern Patagonia, 1888- 1889.” (Co-authored with S. F. Vizcaíno.) Archives of Natural History 41(2): 326-337. 2013. “Red Deer River shakedown: a history of the Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Alberta, 1922.” Earth Sciences History 32(2): 204-234. 2013. “Looking back with ‘great satisfaction’ on Charles Darwin’s vertebrate paleontology.” In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 56-63. 2010. “The second Jurassic dinosaur rush and the dawn of dinomania.” Endeavour 34(3): 104-111. 2010. “Charles Darwin’s Beagle voyage, fossil vertebrate succession, and the gradual birth & death of species.” Journal of the History of Biology 43(1): 363-399. 2009. “Frederic Ward Putnam, Chicago’s cultural philanthropists, and the founding of the Field Museum.” Museum History Journal 2(1): 73-100. 2009. “Dinosaurs, museums, and the modernization of American fossil preparation at the turn of the 20th century.” In Methods in Fossil Preparation: Proceedings of the First Annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium. Petrified Forest, AZ: Petrified Forest Museum Association, pp. 21-34. 2007. “The Field Museum.” In The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 699. 2006. “Bully for Apatosaurus.” Endeavour 30(4): 126–130. 2005. “Henry Fairfield Osborn and Jurassic dinosaur reconnaissance in the San Juan Basin, along the Colorado-Utah border, 1893–1900.” Earth Sciences History 24(2): 159–174. 2004. “Bartholomew James Sulivan.” In The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, vol. IV, pp. 1944–1945. 2004. “Framing nature: Reflections on the formative years of natural history museum development in the United States.” (Co-authored with S. G. Kohlstedt.) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(supplement 1): 7–33. 2003. “Bartholomew James Sulivan’s discovery of fossil vertebrates in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia.” Archives of Natural History 30(1): 56–74. 2000. “Establishing vertebrate paleontology at Chicago’s Field Columbian Museum, 1893– 1898.” Archives of Natural History 27(1): 81–114. 1999. “Score! A method for constructing improved polyethylene foam liners for specimen trays.” Collection Forum 13(2): 90–92. 1996. “Nothosaurus Munster, 1834 (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): proposed precedence over Conchiosaurus Meyer, [1833].” (Co-authored with O. Rieppel.) Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53(4): 270–272. Abstracts, Book Reviews and Other Publications 2019. “Fur and feathers: Building the zoology collections.” In 125 Moments in the Natural History of the Field Museum, ed. F. Mercurio and C. Garland. Chicago: The Field Museum, pp. 28-31. 2019. “Big bone, big audience: Building the dinosaur collections.” In 125 Moments in the Natural History of the Field Museum, ed. F. Mercurio and C. Garland. Chicago: The Field Museum, pp. 40-41. 2019. “Hunting for fossil mammals in South America.” In 125 Moments in the Natural History of the Field Museum, ed. F. Mercurio and C. Garland. Chicago: The Field Museum, pp. 124-125. 2018. “Review of: Darwin’s fossils: the collection that shaped the theory of evolution.” Quarterly Review of Biology 93(4): 378. 2018. “Review of: Dragon Teeth.” Endeavour 42(1): 4. 2018. “Review of: Field Life: Science in the American West During the Railroad Era.” Archives of Natural History 45(1): 190-191. 2017. “The curious case of Argentina’s ‘Old Collections.’” North Carolina Naturalist 25(4): 8. 2017. “Review of: Arthur Smith Woodward: His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Palaeontology.”
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